A Listener on What Journalists Should do Better
Question Everything
Brian Reed
4.6 • 707 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
A listener weighed in with some criticism on Substack. Brian (our host) got involved. Some advice for journalists ensued. It ended up inspiring an entire segment on KCRW’s show Left, Right & Center, which we’re sharing with you here.
This is the kind of action that’s happening over on our new Substack – which you should subscribe to! If you do, we’ll enter you in a lottery to join us at the next taping we do at Bibber & Bell Wine Shop in Brooklyn. We’re getting together reporters who are all covering the Jeffrey Epstein story as it has burst back into the news and is threatening Donald Trump. A couple of you can eavesdrop on the conversation from the storage area in the back with our sound guy – sign up at questioneverything.substack.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, y'all. I hope you're hanging in there. We'll be back in a few weeks with some of the reporting we've been working on and stories we've been putting together. But in the meantime, I just wanted to remind you that I'm on substack. I have a newsletter over there where I share what's on my mind, things that I'm reacting to in the world of journalism, information, lawsuits, stuff that's going on on the beat that we cover. |
| 0:24.5 | And also where I share a lot of reporting that doesn't make it into the show. |
| 0:28.2 | You know, we have a small but mighty team over here that is interviewing journalists, sources, news consumers, experts, thinkers, and we're learning stuff all the time. |
| 0:38.1 | There's just a lot to talk about during this massive period of upheaval that our industry |
| 0:44.5 | and really like the way all of us get information is going through. |
| 0:47.4 | So I'd love for you to join us. |
| 0:49.0 | You can sign up at kCRW.com slash question everything. |
| 0:53.0 | And as part of this, we thought it would be fun to basically choose a couple of our newsletter |
| 0:57.5 | subscribers at random to join us at the next taping we do with journalists at the wine shop |
| 1:03.2 | in New York. |
| 1:04.4 | Our next one is going to be a bunch of incredible reporters who have all been covering the |
| 1:08.6 | Jeffrey Epstein story for years. Obviously, a very |
| 1:12.7 | timely and disturbing story. We'd love to invite a couple of you. So go sign up for our |
| 1:18.6 | newsletter at KCRW.com slash question everything. And we'll choose a couple people at random. |
| 1:22.9 | You can sit in the back of the store and sip some wine and eavesdrop on these amazing reporters. |
| 1:28.0 | The other thing that's been really cool about the substack, honestly, is just that it really feels |
| 1:31.8 | like an actual conversation that I and my team get to have with you. You can weigh in in the |
| 1:38.6 | comments, let us know what you think about what we're reporting. We have a pretty active chat |
| 1:42.6 | happening. And yeah, I wanted to share with you today something that came out of one of these discussions. |
| 1:48.9 | KCRW has another show, a long-running show called Left, Right and Center, |
| 1:53.0 | hosted by David Green, where every week they get together commentators from across the political spectrum |
| 1:58.5 | to discuss what's in the news from their varying perspectives. And not long ago, they did an episode about the press and basically its relationship |
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